NEW MEXICO CATTLE GROWERS v. U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE

No. 00-2050.

248 F.3d 1277 (2001)

NEW MEXICO CATTLE GROWERS ASSOCIATION; New Mexico Cattle Growers Association, a nonprofit organization; New Mexico Public Lands Council, a nonprofit corporation; New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc., a nonprofit corporation; New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau, a nonprofit corporation; New Mexico Wheat Growers Association, a non-profit corporation; Coalition of Arizona New Mexico Counties for Stable Economic Growth, a nonprofit organization; Hidalgo County Cattle Growers Association, a nonprofit organization, on behalf of themselves and their members; Production Credit Association of New Mexico, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, an Agency of the United States Department of Interior; Gale A. Norton, Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior; John Rogers, United States Fish and Wildlife Service Director and Fish and Wildlife Service Regional Director; Nancy Kaufman, Southwest Regional Director, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

May 11, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc R. Stimpert (Karen Budd-Falen and John M. McCall, with him on the briefs), Budd-Falen Law Offices, P.C., Cheyenne, Wyoming, appearing for Appellants.

Katherine J. Barton, United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC (Lois J. Schiffer, Assistant Attorney General, John A. Bryson, and Jean E. Williams, United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC; John W. Zavitz, Assistant United States Attorney, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Benjamin Jesup, United States Department of the Interior, Office of the Solicitor, Washington, DC, and Janet Spaulding, United States Department of the Interior, Office of the Solicitor, Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her on the brief), appearing for Appellees.

Before TACHA, Chief Judge, KELLY, Circuit Judge, and LUNGSTRUM, District Judge.


TACHA, Chief Circuit Judge.

The New Mexico Cattle Growers Association, New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau, New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc., New Mexico Wheat Growers Association, New Mexico Public Lands Council, Albuquerque Production Credit Association, Coalition of Arizona/New Mexico Counties for Stable Economic Growth, and Hidalgo County Cattle Growers Association (collectively "Appellants") all represent, in some fashion, elements of New Mexico's agricultural...

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